I keep reading about podman, yet it doesm’t FEEL as mature to me as docker for a normal user like me. What’s your opinion? Did you already switch or do you keep waiting for … for what? When will you switch?
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Podman didnt silently rewrite my firewall rules upon install
10/10 would recommend
I do not even want to know how many databases are openly available because of that shit.
Who the hell runs Docker on an edge device?
Technically I do, maybe? My home server is running ProxMox which virtualizes PFSense. My docker install is on a separate VM, but same physical device. Not sure if that counts lol
That doesn’t count. You’re still externally firewalling it, which is good procedure.
Everyone who runs it on a root server that is not part of some larger private network at that hoster?
Podman is solid, just don’t use podman-compose but rather utilize the Systemd integration for container management.
With very few exceptions, it works just as well as Docker these days.
I’ve been using podman instead of Docker for a couple years now. I’m not a heavy user, but it doesn’t ever break for me and I appreciate the pods and ease of turning pod config into a kubernetes deployment.
Docker ever felt mature to you?
Explain your feelings on the matter please. I think podman is very good, and just the fact that it doesn’t need to run as root OOTB is enough for me to switch. Yes, Docker can do that, but I’m ideologically on Podman’s side now. No coming back AFAIK
It took your comment for me to understand that ‘podman’ is not some podcast manager, but a docker competitor.
Tried switching some time back, didn’t take long to go back to docker. Podman does not have the polish that docker has taken years to perfect and as much as I love systemd, managing containers in docker is 10x better.
I tried switching a while back, but I found a bunch of stuff didn’t work properly, and wasn’t considered supported. I don’t remember what it was exactly.
I might try it again once there’s been a bit more development and community use. Docker isn’t ideal, but at least it works and there’s a lot of community support.
I switched a year ago to podman and had some trouble to get everything running. But it is possible. I’m not running anything rootful and everything works.
Read the docs, use podman-compose (this sadly has no good docs, but works quit well when you got it) and get ready to play around with permissions and file ownership.
My only serious complaint with docker is the quality of their updates. They keep breaking stuff. If podman supported all docker functionality including compose based stacks, I’d consider switching, but last time I looked it didn’t.
There is a wrapper for podman supporting compose.
But maybe it’s time to use kubernetes deployments or pods instead of compose files…
Yeah, the constant Docker breakage was one of the main reasons I switched to Podman. FYI you can use Docker Compose directly with Podman.
well I’ve been using both for quite a while. If you just want something that works, stick with docker. There is nothing wrong with docker in the homelab scenario and podman has rough edges that cringes you. If you are a control freak like me who wants to control every aspect of container running, then podman is a great tool that forces you into the habbit of learning and tinkering. It helped me understand a hell lot of things.
I switched to podman half a year ago and it was a mess, I had a lot of compatibility and permission issues also, it’s hard to support red hat after the drama
It should be harder to support Docker, which hasn’t released a new open source product since before Docker Desktop, which is also proprietary. Podman Desktop? OSS. It’d be hard to name a product Red Hat supports that isn’t OSS.
That’s also true, my bad
Why not try docker rootless? Been using it for 2 years and does everything docker does.
Only thing I miss is proper support for some services I use. Minikube is afaik still a pain with podman, at least rootless. Gitlab runner still doesn’t support podman completely imho. But a plus to docker is that they still build packages for EL 7 while the podman version in EL 7 is pretty damn old. Besides from that I went podman all the way.
It’s got a long way to go to catch up.
